I think I prefer this format for faction summaries. Also, I decided to go ahead and wrap up the Wraithlord stuff today so that I can move on to something else here. It is fully possible that I may return to them at some point, since I actually really like them in general.
Name: The Wraithlords
Races: Undead
- The extermination of all living creatures
- A new world order of the Undead
- Each Wraithlord has their own personal agenda. More on that below.
- Wraithlord Arath
- First of the Wraithlords, created thousands of years ago
- Powerful spellcaster and combatant
- Chessmaster behind most important world events
- Based on Nicodemus from The Dresden Files
- Wraithlord Dirextrus
- Powerful spellcaster
- Pursues magical knowledge above all else
- Wraithlord Panack
- Master tactician, wants to prove that he is the greatest general to have ever unlived
- Believes only in strength
- Leads the actual armies
- Has significant underlings and lieutenants, he is the only one to trust his own creations
- Wraithlord Nirith
- Completely insane
- Goes between benevolent and sadistic, but is the strongest of the Wraithlords in raw power
- Was created by accident
- Spread plagues to create undead
- Slay the living through pitched battles
- Cause political strife to make the established nations easier to conquer
- Acquire magical knowledge of times long gone, so they may never be stopped
- Wraithlord Arath created back when the Formians still existed. He began spreading the curse of undeath among them.
- The Formians were destroyed by dragons, Arath survived.
- As time went by and new life was created, Arath resumed his plans.
- Dirextrus created because of her fascination with the undead and her magical strength.
- Panack created after he was defeated by the undead hordes in war.
- Nirith created when he was defeated by the other Wraithlords, the only time they have all come together to do something. Reality itself was shattered by Nirith's insanity, and he was accidentally turned into a Wraithlord.
- Several centuries before the time of the campaign, the Wraithlords were sealed away in tombs across the continent.
- Arath's minions eventually uncover the locations of his tomb, and release him.
- Arath begins plotting how to free the other Wraithlords.
- PCs arrive in central Fomor. Campaign begins.
The Wraithlords are an immensely powerful group of undead that are dedicated to the eradication of life on the world of Fomor. In ages past, they came very close to accomplishing their goals. Panack had led their armies to victory over most of Fomor, and only a few elven and dwarven holds remained. Plagues spread by Dirextrus and Arath, combined with Arath's political manipulation, had left the living nations very weak and vulnerable. However, after they killed Nirith and he was brought back as a Wraithlord, they again fractured. The remaining living managed to capture them, one by one, and sealed them away in tombs, obscured with magic of epic proportions. Nirith helped them do it, though he thought it was funny at the time. Each of the Wraithlords have sat, imprisoned for an unimaginable amount of time.
What the living did not know was that Arath had planned for this, and had his own agents in the world spring a plan to free him. In the meantime, he and Dirextrus were able to study the magic that had been used to imprison them, and emerged stronger than before. Arath was freed, and the next phase of his plan was to free the other Wraithlords, and pick their plans up from where they left off. For now, they are very weak until they have time to rebuild their strength and attempt to take over the world once more.
Arath is the most dedicated to creating a new world order. The others all have their own independent agendas. Each of the Wraithlords attempt to manipulate each other into accomplishing their own goals, although Arath is the best at it. Each of them believe in the superiority of the undead, and that their way is the one true way. While there has not been direct infighting between them, they don't tend to go out of the way to help each other. Most of the undead beneath the Wraithlords are mindless servants, although they may have some lieutenants to handle the more specific affairs.
As an ancient faction, they have access to powers that might not otherwise be feasible. For instance, Panack wears armor that seems very heavy, yet he moves about a battlefield as though he were unencumbered and light as a feather. Nirith teleports around the globe in the blink of an eye. Arath can spontaneously create hordes of undead with a minor impulse of will. Dirextrus has a permanent portal to her own personal dimension of hell built into her shadow. They are incredibly powerful, and the secrets to how they were initially defeated have been lost to time. Some of the dwarven clans have detailed epics as to how they defeated the undead in combat, though these are believed to be highly embellished.
What is unknown to the Wraithlords themselves is that they were created by another force, in a plot that is no way completely stolen from the lore of Warcraft. When the Formians tunneled deep beneath the earth, they cracked a small hole in the seal of an eldritch horror. This being exerted enough of it's will to first create Arath, as part of it's own scheme to free itself and devour all of creation. The dragons sensed this event as soon as it happened, and put an end to the Formians before they could do more damage, driving their entire species extinct. Arath does not know any of this, but his plans to destroy all life would ultimately free this being. It's tomb is still partially damaged, but it is patiently waiting for it's servants to fulfill their destiny before it launches the next phase of it's scheme, which would begin the second phase of the campaign I have planned.
Wraithlord posts so far:
Wraithlord Arath
Wraithlord Dirextrus
Wraithlord Panack
Wraithlord Nirith
Belkor, Champion of Death
Nora, Slayer of the Sands
The Scavenger
Dread Riders
Note: This list may be expanded later.
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